Retailers’ web tracking can expose ‘real world identity’ of bitcoin users
Consumers who elect to pay for goods and services online using the cryptocurrency ‘bitcoin’ can have their identities exposed when […]
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Encryption Technology Could Protect the Privacy of Your DNA
Your DNA is some of the most intimate information out there—encoded in it is information about your health, your personality, […]
AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off
A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user’s explicit permission to […]
Amazon may give developers your private Alexa transcripts
According to sources reported by The Information, Amazon is currently looking at opening up this private transcript data to its […]
UK outlines proposals for shared approach on data protection
The document outlines how the UK is considering an ambitious model for the protection and exchange of personal data with […]
Lawyers try to end warrantless smartphone searches at border
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy at the border? The government has consistently argued no, but court cases […]
Data can shape behavior and solve bad health habits
Data which can track our psychological behavior is “something very powerful” and could help tackle unhealthy habits, according to the […]
What does it mean to be differentially private?
Back in June 2016, Apple announced it will use differential privacy to protect individual privacy for certain data that it […]
When the cookie meets the blockchain
Cryptocurrencies are portrayed as a more anonymous and less traceable method of payment than credit cards. So if you shop […]
Police Body Camera Company, Axon, Is Vacuuming In Data, Stoking Privacy Concerns
Axon is using body cameras to build an artificial intelligence system that raises big civil liberties questions. Source: Police Body […]
Colombia Designates U.S. as “Adequate” Data Transfer Nation
On August 14, 2017, the Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (“SIC”) announced that it was adding the United States […]
Russian Privacy Regulator Adds Countries to List of Nations with Sufficient Privacy Protections
As reported in BNA Privacy & Security Law Report , on August 9, 2017, the Russian privacy regulator, Roskomnadzor, expanded […]